Re: Test Alternative initialize scheme

From:

Tim Johnson

Subject:

Re: Test Alternative initialize scheme

Date:

Thu, 5 Apr 2018 13:46:53 -0800

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* Emanuel Berg <address@hidden> [180404 17:30]:
> Tim Johnson wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure how one might combine spacemacs
> > and emacs resources under one directory.
> > The spacemacs install directions call for
> > installing spacemacs directly into .emacs.d
> > and I'm presuming that will totally clobber
> > my existing config.
>
> OK, sorry, now I understand the problem!
> If this is what you mean by "clutter" it is
> very poor engineering indeed! Unbelievable -
> you should mail the developers and tell them!
>
> *Yes* you should definitely change it!
>
> I'd do it like this: Do a grep for any
> reference to .emacs.d in the spacemacs source
> and instalation scripts, Makefiles etc. If it
> is a variable somewhere, change it, to
> .spacemacs.d - and if it isn't, change
> every occurence.
I could do that and see what happens, probably will.
However, the preferred installation sidesteps that process.
I installed spacemacs with the following preferred command:
git clone https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ~/.emacs.d
git will not overwrite .emacs.d, so I had to rename it (was
already backed up elsewhere).
Spacemacs seems to be put together quite professionally.
I believe that I could merge the the new .emacs.d and my current
one without anything getting clobbered except for init.el. So the
option of a custom init file is doable.
It is probably best to just investigate further and submit
questions to the spacemacs IRC before I do any merging. I couple
of simple scripts should handle that.
I'm an eternal noob on emacs and even more rusty since I retired
my coding business *but*, I think that spacemacs could have put
this together with transitions from older, established emacsen in
mind.
Their installation instructions seem to procede from only one
scenario:
Newbie doesn't have emacs, noobie installs emacs and spacemacs on
top of that fresh install and it's good to go. Not so easy for
someone like me who has a collection of legacy resources.
Thanks for the help, Emanuel. If you like, in a few days, I can
post an update, this time with spacemacs in the subject.
cheers
> Then you might need to tell spacemacs to look
> there, as well.
>
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